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Let's just say I'm glad I read the survey before my older child - a preteen boy - saw it reported out of context somewhere. And got any Big Ideas. "About half of American teenagers receive an allowance from their parents," it read. Fair enough. "And most typically get about $50 a week." You've got to contact someone for the context. So I let fly a quiver full of questions. The full study, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, was done by Ohio State University for the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.